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Interview: Ngu Morchu, MD and founder of Yako Medical Africa

How do you solve a problem like Nigerian healthcare? With a negligible private insurance market and limited-reach public healthcare system, it’s going to take an honest appraisal of the country’s problems and entrepreneurs with vision and drive to turn things around. Healthcare Nova speaks to Ngu Morchu, MD and founder of Yako Medical Africa which is pioneering new business models in imaging. He claims to have an answer, and he says it starts with creating “Africa’s Affidea”.

Largest Dutch clinic chain refinances

Bergman Clinics, the largest Dutch private clinic chain, has refinanced with UK-listed Intermediate Capital Group after several tough years. CEO Bart Malenstein tell us that better times are ahead as the statutory insurers start to appreciate what the private clinics can offer. What are the prospects for the Dutch market?

Swedish speciality care provider sheds loss-making hospitals

Swedish specialty care provider GHP has sold off two of its hospitals. The facilities, located in the Danish town of Aarhus and the Finnish capital Helsinki, were loss-making. We speak to Daniel Ohman and Philip Delborn, respectively CEO and CFO of GHP, and to Olof Bengtsson, CFO of Sweden-based operator Capio, who bought the Danish hospital.

Aster DM may reduce IPO valuation

GCC-based hospital operator Aster DM may be looking to refile for an IPO in the next couple of weeks, but at a lower valuation.

Interview: Pinak Shrikhande, principal, HealthQuad

Pinak Shrikhande is principal of Delhi-based HealthQuad, a Singapore-based private equity house and Quadria Capital's offshoot company which is investing in healthcare. What is its investment philosophy, and approach to developing assets in telemedicine and recruitment? Healthcare Nova finds out more.

WhatClinic targets ten-fold growth in German enquiries

Ireland-based private clinic comparison website WhatClinic has spent €1m on the launch of a new sister platform in German in the hope to attract more patients seeking treatment abroad. The group tells Healthcare Europa it expects a ten-fold growth in the number of enquiries from patients in Germany in the first year.

Mehilainen on course for IPO

The private equity owners of Finland's largest healthcare group Mehilainen have tasked JP Morgan with testing the M&A waters, but a public listing in Helsinki remains the most likely outcome.

FREE BLOG What do you do when medical professionals go off the tracks?

Every year, some 12,000 medical and care professionals are subject to serious investigation by the three largest professional bodies in the UK alone. So how do you deal with the doctor or nurse who starts abusing colleagues, who has sex with a patient, who makes mistakes or lies on their CV? We talk to Jonathan Coe, who runs The Clinic for Boundaries Studies, which offers an intensive course to get perpetrators to open their eyes, take responsibility and change their behaviour.

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